Chicago Mayor Frustrated as Texas Buses More Illegal Immigrants to City

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, here speaking during a June 2021 press conference, is among big city mayors who support using federal pandemic assistance money to fund experimental guaranteed income programs, such as Chicago’s plan approved in April 2021 to provide 5,000 eligible recipients with $500 a month for one year beginning in August 2022. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot voiced her frustration on Sept. 4 that Texas has begun busing illegal immigrants to her city.

Fifty immigrants, mostly part of families, arrived by bus in Chicago on Sept. 4 from Texas. More than 95 immigrants had arrived in the city on buses days earlier.